Necrocrave, you probably found it easy because you are a
good player Good player is a good player. When I play 1h/shield I find I do well with that, but it's boring to me cause I prefer the manual blocking challenge. Not saying anything bad here about 1h/shield (awesome class and many awesome players use it), I'm just saying a good player is a good player.
Also, LS and other 2h swords like it are good because they are very well rounded weapons....pretty fast, decent damage, decent length, etc. Other weapons like a greatsword are meant to be longer and more damaging but slower and harder to maneuver, and a nimble 1h is supposed to be faster and more agile but less damaging. A sword like the LS is the middle of the road sword. Now, do I think that is all balanced perfectly right now? Not exactly. +1 here and -1 here on some things and they'd have it.
People need to stop just going "NERF LS ALL LS = SCRUBS" (and 2h in general) and actually come at it with some sound logic and mechanical balancing solutions.Not to mention, if someone sucks you should be able to kill them either way, LS or not. LS is not some magical weapon....its fast and decently damaging if you have good PS but its short, and if they suck they shouldn't be able to manual block and stuff that well, right? So wait for them to spam and then close in and kill them.The issue you bring up with the LS and lighter swords dmg compared to the great swords is because they recently NERFED the greatswords mostly to appease the EU community I think....in conjunction with that they buffed the LS and other lighter swords by 1 here or there and now many use those instead. I agree it doesn't all make sense....
Funny thing is how much people whine about LS when I really don't see that many....if you go into battle its mostly polearms and ranged, and if you go into siege its mostly 1/h shield from my experience.